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side-lock

side-lock is the alternative form of sidelock.

Meaning of sidelock

Noun

sidelock (plural sidelocks)

  1. A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
    • observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 558
  2. The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

Forms of side-lock

pluralside-locks

Questions about side-lock

What is side-lock the alternative form of?
Side-lock is the alternative form of sidelock.

Words near side-lock in the dictionary

  1. side-lining
  2. side-loader
  3. side-loaders
  4. side-lobe
  5. side-lobes
  6. side-lock
  7. side-locks
  8. side-neck
  9. side-necked turtle
  10. side-necked turtles
  11. side-necks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: side-lock (page history and authors); sidelock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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